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Source: The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More

“Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.”

Sun Wind Rain Crosses Seasons Seeds Cosmic Secrecy Creeks

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!”

Hours Flower Rain Fruit Golden Awake Latter Altars Thanksgiving Day Golden Hour

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.”

Earth Rain Lap April Stalking Sap Pansies

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.”

“Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.”

Way Earth Situation Accepting Land Possibility Humility Ready Capable Rain Silent Refuse Corruption Seeds Sunshine Miraculous Richness Transforming New Possibilities Creativeness

Author:Anthony of Sourozh

“Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.”

Knowing Expression Wind Rain Candle

Author:Elton John

“She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.”

Running Water Sun Color Expression Rain Dresses Silk

Author:Al Stewart

“I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.”

Way I Can Dark Sun Gone Future Rain Blind Shining Clouds Obstacles My Way Premonition Dark Clouds

Author:Johnny Nash

“Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.”

Writing Book Pain Sleep Future Rain Window Recipes Premonition

Author:Ani DiFranco

“All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?”

“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”

Philosophy Water Society Theory Activity Rain Rivers Anger Excellence Humble Tolerate Scorn Pipe Exalted Be Humble Plumber Plumbing Good Philosophy

Book:Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?

Source: Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?

“You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you hit Wales and you're in another country! Also, wherever you are in England it's still raining.”

Ifs Stills Country America Rain England London Miles Finding Yourself Wales Wherever You Are Slough

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I'm always in the elements, it seems like it's pouring rain on me a lot and there's crowds of people pushing me around, and it feels very real. Which is great as a actor, you don't have to come up with too much of it. I'm always amazed.”

People Feels Real Seems Actors Too Much Elements Rain Come Up Crowds Pushing Amazed Pouring Pouring Rain

Author:Charlie Day

“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.”

Problem Night Pleasure Mystery Streets Shapes Summer Ordinary Rain Empty Absolutes Luminous Skates Odor Pittsburgh Maple Summer Rain Empty Streets

Book:The Dance Most of All: Poems

Source: The Dance Most of All: Poems

“Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.”

Rain Standing Sight Astronomers Standing In The Rain

Author:Dennis Overbye

“As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.”

Fall Tree Beats Rain Tall Palms Hail Palm Trees

Author:Simon Dach

“Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here”

Knows I Can Matter Home Water Tree Subjects Wind Rain Sells Satisfied Atmosphere Meant To Be Leafs Going Home

Author:Lemn Sissay

“May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.”

May Eye Night Sides Watches Sun Dog Wind Bears Rain Blue Miles Over You Trails Fourteen Owl Reverie Lonesome Dazzle Ridges Campfire Rattlesnakes Potholes

Author:Edward Abbey

“I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.”

Way Looks Kind Has Beens Whole Bigs Light Black Cities Streets Rain Window Shining Apples Sugar Candy Polished Syrup

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.”

Should Kind Water Air Rain

Author:Kamahl

“Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.”

People Happens Darkness Rain Shining Clouds Accidents Complaints Calamity Incidents Rain Or Shine

Book:Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book

Source: Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book

“Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

Has Beens Past Joy Heaven Hours Fate Mines Rain Fairs Shining Spite Possessed Foul Rain Or Shine

Book:The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author

Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author

“Under that light rain, beaming in the night game, can't stop now, keep moving, no brake pads. Came here to prove a point, live my life on the field, make history in between the base paths. And compete against the fear that is in me, that's my only barrier and I swear I'm going to break that. From the mud, the cleats that we dragged through the feet, this is that moment and you cannot take it back... This is what you make of it, yeah we play to win, live it like we're under the lights of the stadium. Fight, until the day that God decides to wave us in, right, until he waves us in.”